Polite society

From the Bruce Lee poster on her wall to the spinning kick by real-life stuntwoman Eunice Huthart she spends hours trying to perfect, aspiring stuntwoman Ria Khan ( There’s a wonderful differentiation to the fights, which all feel as targeted and emotionally distinct as the songs in a musical: Ria slowly gets more confident, the stakes behind her sister Lena (Ritu Arya) marrying a too-perfect doctor Salim (Akshay Khanna) and acquiring a domineering mother-in-law Raheela (Nimra Bucha) get higher — and Ria’s schemes to stop the marriage get more bonkers. It fell to fight arranger Rob Lock and stunt coordinator Crispin Layfield to design a fight for Ria and Lena. But they had a rich foundation to work with, both the visual influences that “Polite Society” draws on and Manzoor’s script. “Nida’s brief was quite interesting. She wanted some brutal fights, some majestic fights, a lot of wire work, which is obviously very prevalent in the film, a lot of ‘Matrix’ tricks and those type of influences in some of the fights,” Lock told IndieWire. “And when I read the script, I could tell she was writing from a knowledgeable martial arts-type perspective. I could see she trained, just from the way she described the dojo fight, the intricacies and the way the fight went to and fro.” “Polite Society” Parisa Taghizadeh According to Layfield, a lot of the brutality of the moment that sister takes on sister arises from setting the fight within the confines of Ria’s bedroom, as opposed to the...

Running time 104 minutes Country United Kingdom Language English Box office $2.5 million Polite Society is a 2023 British Polite Society had its world premiere at the Plot [ ] In At school, Ria is inseparable from her friends Clara and Alba, but their disapproving teacher urges her to pursue a more "serious" career. Ria's emails to Eunice about a potential mentorship go unanswered, and she is soundly defeated by the school bully Kovacs. The Khan family is invited to an To Ria's horror, Lena is charmed by Salim and, after a few whirlwind weeks of dating, agrees to marry him and move to Desperate to sabotage Lena's relationship, Ria lashes out at her friends, and breaks into Salim's bedroom to plant used condoms. She is caught, and confronts Salim with a picture of his first wife, whom he explains died in childbirth. Furious, Lena berates Ria to give up the fantasies that her sister will change her mind about marriage, or that she will ever become a stuntwoman. At odds with her sister and ignored by her friends, Ria gives up martial arts. She visits Raheela to apologize and is dragged into joining her spa day, where Raheela reveals her true colors and tortures Ria with Escaping back home, Ria realizes she cannot convince her family of the truth. She tells Clara and Alba, and together they devise a plan, persuading Kovacs to drive them to the wedding to rescue Lena. Ria distracts the guests with a dance while Clara and Alba, disguised as waiters, sneak past the armed guard at...

Summary: A merry mash up of sisterly affection, parental disappointment and bold action, Polite Society follows martial artist-in-training Ria Khan who believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of A merry mash up of sisterly affection, parental disappointment and bold action, Polite Society follows martial artist-in-training Ria Khan who believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood. … Expand This review contains spoilers , click expand to view. Nida Manzoor’s Police Society is my current candidate for best film of the year, because it’s beautiful to look at, the fight scenes are fire, and the story is fresh and original. Without saying too much about the plot, because this is one I’m not interested in spoiling, so much as gifting to you, Ria is a young Pakistani girl in England with an overactive imagination–think Scott Pilgrim or The Mitchells vs the Machines but with kung fu, trying to swim her way culturally upstream to land her dream job as a stunt woman, while her older sister Lena has returned home after suffering some setbacks in art school. Lena starts dating a guy and shenanigans are afoot. Mazoor is the writer and director of this movie wi...

We are in an era with a delightful surge in Pakistani global media representation. Joining this wild train — and shifting its tracks — is British-Pakistani director Nida Manzoor’s first feature film, Polite Society. Starring Nimra Bucha and As an avid fan of Manzoor’s previous award-winning television series, Set in the UK, Polite Society follows young Ria Khan (Priya Kansara) — a fierce misfit determined to become a stuntwoman with the help of her tough but supportive older sister, Lena (Ritu Arya), who faces her own struggles as a woman of “marriageable age” and a simultaneous art school dropout. After learning of Lena’s unusual engagement, and meeting her fiancé (Akshay Khanna) and mother-in-law (Nimra Bucha), Ria feels in her bones that something is off. She and her equally bizarre friends set off on a heist mission to track down what the in-laws are hiding. Wacky and wild as it is, this film does many crucial things. One of those is, of course, making women not only the centre but the drivers of the narrative. For once, I found myself watching an action film where women weren’t the sexy bikini-clad girlfriends or even the one-off typecast “badass bitch” — they were the action. I held my breath, watching Ria wipe blood off her lips and charge forward again, particularly in vigorous battles with Another plus in the film — apart from the flying kicks, hair-pulling, and sucker-punching — is its complex portraiture of all kinds of women’s relationships. From familiar, hila...

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'Polite Society' kicks butt in the name of sisterhood : Pop Culture Happy Hour In the fun, genre-mashing action comedy Polite Society, Priya Kansara plays Ria, a spunky teen who aspires to be a movie stuntwoman. When her older sister Lena (Ritu Arya) suddenly gets engaged, Ria becomes determined to sabotage the wedding. The movie is the feature debut of Nida Manzoor, who created the acclaimed series We Are Lady Parts. And it's a sharp, yet loving exploration of sisterhood — though with a bit more fighting and stunts. Priya Kansara stars as Ria Khan in Polite Society. Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features In the fun, genre-mashing action comedy Polite Society, Priya Kansara plays Ria, a spunky teen who aspires to be a movie stuntwoman. When her older sister Lena (Ritu Arya) suddenly gets engaged, Ria becomes determined to sabotage the wedding. The movie is the feature debut of Nida Manzoor, who created the acclaimed series We Are Lady Parts. And it's a sharp, yet loving exploration of sisterhood — though with a bit more fighting and stunts.